Anonymous

I (a brown skinned woman) was hired as a Service and UI/UX designer at a company in Helsinki. They paid well and the person who hired me was kind and valued my skills but left the company in my first month. When I was hired, I was promised that I could attend meetings with clients that have projects that involve UI in English or are from outside Finland. I got inducted into many projects and I helped with the UI of each of these. However, every time I asked to join a customer meeting or workshop that was going to be conducted in English, I was promised an invite which never came. Instead I would get silly excuses about technical errors. I was given instructions on what UI to make after these workshops from a Finnish colleague. Over time I realised that I was being used as a diversity hire who could do all the backend work but never be worthy enough to be customer facing.

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